The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-20
NO 3.
Daylight Breaking In.
When Gen. Hancock said the tar

III Is q local question the country
laughed at him. He meant tt at
each community formed it's opir-
ons upon the matter from stand
point of local interest. The great
change that is taking place in this
part of the country and the stupen-
dous interests developed have
brought our people to think more
seriously upon the tariff. Hitherto
We have only thecrized. Now it
comes right home to us in its ap-
plication. Our people are deciding
II now in their minds from pra,-
tical knowledge OF it's effects upon
their fortunes.
Here in Giles we realize that If
Sheffield, Birmingham, Decatur
and Nashville become great manu-
featuring centers with thousands
of working men in them, it is to
our interest 10 foster those manu-
factIring enterprises so that they
may employ their thousands of la
borers at good wages and thus
make them able to pay US high
prices for our proiuce. Everybody
can understand this statement OF
the question. No politician can
pull the wool over the eyes of Giles
county farmers on this question.
1t is straight, open, plain propo-
sition; IL is 10 our interest to protect
them that zoe may get rich off of
them. Giles is midway between
them all-the best agricultural
country they will have to draw
from and of course we are going
to favor policies that protect them.
| No democrat need be afraid he
will be running against his party
when he adopts this view. The
democratic party is no free trade
party All the protection needed
by these cities aud working men is
afforded by the democratic plat.
form. Nobody wants protection
per Sc. Incidental protection is the
doctrine of the platform and that is
all that is needed.
Daylight is breaking in on our
people on this question. The Hon.
inc. G. Ballentine has broken away
from the old mooriDgs and come
out square!y upon the side of prog
ress. If he had done so six months
ago it might be different with him
to-day. He is man of progress
sive thought and The CITIZEN hon
ors him for daring to tead in these
new ideas rather than follow in the
old ones.
The people should honor men
who speak from conviction. We
are too prone TO try to force men
to agree with us-to whip them in
to our way of thinking-to abuse
and prosecute them because they
lare TO speak out in bold, manly
advocacy of what they conceive
to be right, instead OF trucking to
public opinion. We would not
give fig for a mans opinion
formed because the people think
that way. What we want is public
men to teach sound doctrine in ste ad
of sneaking around trying u find
what is popular so they may slip
into office by advocating it. And
yet many of US scalp man who
dares to have an opionion. We
place premium thus upon donna
gogy. We thus force men TO be
time-servers. We cut of The pos
sibility of learning anything new
or progressive because we instantly
behead the man who dares to get
out of the old ruts. How foolish
that is!
Brethren, we are onvinced as
that we live to day that the time is
near at hand when the great body
of this people will agree with the
: incidental protection idea and foi.
low Col. Ballentine into the new
: channel where their highest inter
ests leads them. We find the fol-
lowing in the last Manufacturers
Record.
Everywhere through the south /,
seen the rapid growth of the protective
= Jht III otlltlLltllbs w ncICtGT n IAcIOTV
5 or furnace is started, or a coal mine
= opened, there Is found tendency &c
changer from the old free trade views O
the past to protection, as the peopl,
of the south are now fully alive to the
! Importance of encouraging the growth
5 of their industrial interests, and this
they are learning can only be done
:, through the aid of protective tariff.
An instance OF the change OF senti.
: ment is found in the case of .:Represen
tative Ballentine, of Pulaski, Tenn
nat gentleman in convers alton with
distinguished Pennsylvania, lately re
s marked:
= Well will say that have beer
t the early and constant friend OF Colo
: mel Morrison in this tariff controversy
# but recent developments in my owl
g state, growing as it is with marvelou
It rapidity in metallurgical and other In
n dustries, not to speak of the question il
Y its national aspects and particularly il
IL the south at large, have convinced M
= that we democrats OF the south mus
Is look at this question in the light o
a modern progress, and not according /
lie the economic and labor conditions O
s. the south 20 and 30 years ago. Id
re uoV nesitase 10 say tnat lean earnest
l. y towards Mr.. Randall's view of dem
u ocratic policy on this question, an
y when the opportunity presents itself
le shall be counted among his friends an
supporters"
We challenge any man to assai
: this as repubhcanism, as some {
US are wont TO do. The Manufac
ture:s' Record has done a thoussn
per cent more for the south than .
other outside agencies combined
Col. Ballentine is as sound q demo
crat as breathes. Thousands {
~ our foremost and best men ar
adopting this view. They canno
help it when they investigate II
Our interests demand it of us.